Word: new
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris Biennale offers only the most tantalizing hints. This looks like the beginning of the decade of the art group: from the U.S., from France, from Cuba, Canada, Eastern Europe, well over half the work that the young sent to Paris was created by teams. The other new beginning is a cool fascination with man's urban environment as subject-dream cityscapes, 21st century living and working places, architectural fantasies. But these are suggestive glimpses of the art that is forming toward the turn of the millennium...
...merger that created Morgan Guaranty Trust, the country's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $11 billion); of a stroke; in Manhattan. Alexander accepted a partnership in the faltering house of Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by aggressively scouring the country for new accounts and training a new generation of bright young employees to follow his lead. By 1959, Morgan was a growing, $915 million concern, and Alexander had the stage set for his greatest coup: merger with $3.13 billion Guaranty Trust...
...Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man certifies an old philosopher for the New Left...
...Christmas vacations drew near, some college administrations (at Fisk and Manhattanville) ended classes early, isolating student sit-ins. Two major universities, however, responded to earlier demonstrations with stiff new rules and penalties...
...Clark Kerr's Godkin Lectures describe and name a new U.S. institution: the "multiversity...